Thursday, April 24, 2014

Mobility News Weekly – Week of April 20, 2014

The Mobility News Weekly is an online newsletter made up of the most interesting news and articles related to enterprise mobility that I run across each week. I am specifically targeting information that reflects market data and trends.Also read Enterprise Mobility Asia News WeeklyAlso read Field Mobility News WeeklyAlso read M2M News WeeklyAlso read Mobile Commerce News WeeklyAlso read Mobile Cyber Security News WeeklyAlso read Mobile Health News WeeklyLooking for an enterprise mobility solution? Read the Mobile Solution Directory Here!Chegg, the connected learning platform for students, confirmed to MMW ahead of the weekend that it has acquired student deal platform Campus Special for $17 million in cash and stock. Students across more than 500 college campuses are already using Chegg Campus Deals to order and pay for food and to discover offers from local and national merchants. Read Original ContentFacebook has just released version 9.0 of its Facebook app for iOS. The new update comes just weeks after version 8.0 arrived. In version 9.0, Facebook has bestowed the ability reply to comments on stories within the application. Read Original ContentAccording to the Accenture 2013 Mobility CIO Survey, 59 percent of companies have adopted an enterprise-wide mobility strategy. Read Original ContentCatavolt is the most secure way to rapidly build mobile apps that work with all enterprise systems and all mobile devices. IT departments rest easy with Catavolt’s industry-leading “No Data at Rest” security platform, and a no-coding app creation approach that efficiently addresses the backlog of business requests for mobile apps. Business users receive apps that are custom-tailored to their business process, and a high-performance, native user experience that fully utilizes the devices they carry today. This newsletter is sponsored in part by Catavolt.Microsoft has named Scott Guthrie as the permanent head for Microsoft’s enterprise group, a position he has held in an acting capacity. Read Original ContentSurveying the worldwide mobile ad market for the first quarter of 2014, Opera Mediaworks pegged Android's share of traffic at 42.8 percent across all mobile devices, including smartphones and tablets, and iOS' piece of the pie shrunk to 38.2 percent from 43.4 percent. Read Original ContentIn crowded cities, very high radio frequencies in cell networks might help carriers to stave off a feared bandwidth crunch for years, according to New York University’s Ted Rappaport. That’s why industry researchers are going to a conference in Brooklyn this week to talk about millimeter-wave wireless. Read Original Content

***Full Disclosure: These are my personal opinions. No company is silly enough to claim them. I am a mobility and digital transformation analyst, consultant and writer. I work with and have worked with many of the companies mentioned in my articles.